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Correction: you're failing the Scholastic delivery of Spanish teaching. Don't let that keep you down. Don't let school's grades decide for you what you do, or don't know; or even what you're capable of knowing. School is great for some subjects with certain people. the thing is, is that anyone is capable of learning anything. You've learned something: school is not the best medium for you in particular to learn Spanish, and likely other languages. Try different ways. Podcasts have become a relatively ignored, and yet amazing, tool in teaching and learning. Youtube his hundreds of channels on languages. Try reading books in other languages, and decipher them into English (treat it like a game,) then translate other things by hand into a different language. You could directly incorporate the few words you do know into your own daily lexicon. For example, I have taken to signing the words or letters I know in ASL as I speak them. So maybe when you're writing notes for stuff, or writing schedules, you write them in whatever langue you're learning. Or you could find a friend who speaks Spanish, and see if they'll help you. Learning a language is a lifelong commitment, there are thousands of ways to do it. So keep trying

So I finally watched the second sin City movie, A Dame to Kill For, and I am apparently in the minority that liked it, and an even smaller minority (I think I'm actually the only one) who absolutely loved it and thought it complimented the first Sin City movie so much that it is unthinkable for me to watch one and not the other. That's how well they fit together, for me. And I have no doubt that when Miller and Rodriguez put out the third one, it'll do the same. They are a perfect pair. It took nine years to come out, which means I waited seven years, since I first watched it in 2007 (several times,) and it was amazing. If there is anyone out there who has seen both and can explain to me exactly why it is that A Dame to Kill For wasn't a perfect addition to the stories in the first one, I'd love to discuss it because I really liked it, and I think these two are my favorite from Rodriguez, especially now that i see what he's doing with this series (it's genius, and I hope that if he and Miller plan to do more movies, they do it the way they did with these two.) I can't think of a single other series that has done what he is doing, disjointing the narrative and making the two movies' stories interlocking, and each subsequent movie enriching further the events that happened in all the prior films. It's extremely smart, new, fun, and interesting. Not only that, but it actually makes you think ,it makes you try and keep up with what's going on. So yes, anyone who's interested in discussing the Sin City movies, I'd love to talk about it, I'm itching to discuss A Dame to Kill For.

Music has been one of my study focuses, so I am naturally into just about everything by now. A primary thing I've been working on is a book detailing a history that connects the San Francisco Sound directly to more current movements, particularly those in California. I wanted to do a book on Grunge, but there is no need to since the perfect book has been released on the subject and I feel it could not be done any better. Everybody Loves Our Town is one of my favorite books. As far as my favorite genre goes, it's a toss-up between Jazz and metal. It's really hard to decide, so I have chosen to not decide. They're tied for first with folk as the runner-up. I'm also a big fan of stoner rock and the prog rock of the 70's. My permanent favorite band is Tool. I don't think that will ever change. It's been that way for half my life now, though I have exposed myself to as much music as possible to see if there was anyone I liked more. So far, I have found none, but I have found many other amazing artists along the way. I have actually found it really difficult to mot like an artist in the last few years. I recently began practicing the guitar, and I do it for two hours everyday, plus in between breaks in writing (which I do for 10 hours a day, so it's nice to get a couple half-hour breaks in.)

I've been doing a thorough re-read of Against the Day and will do so with the rest of Pynchon's novels. Against the Day and Mason & Dixon are both amazing, absolute masterpieces and are probably both examples of what you can do when you have mastered the art of story scope. They are absolutely genius, and there's nothing like these two books out there.

Brave New World is an amazing book. I mean, try and read all of those books if you can, they're all fairly short. But if you're asking about which one to read for study in class, Brave New World is a good choice.

The above expresses things they care about. And that, as far as I am concerned, is the most radiant and significant of traits a person can have.

7/10 because I don't know what it is, but the path of color is done well and there's mention of the Twilight Zone, which is an awesome show.

Autumn Effect is my favorite of theirs as well, but I really liked Birth to Burial. It was really good, and I was satisfied. I am listening to Kaki King's new one now, then Blur's, and then new Modest Mouse. And Voltaire had a new one last year apparently, so I'll have to listen to that.

Gardens of the Moon had an amazing opening. And I loved the first hundred pages. The next 700 were not nearly as interesting, and i read it twice to assure myself, to double-check. it was very disappointing, because this is considered a crowning achievement in the fantasy genre, and it wasn't very impressive. I don't know, maybe I'll read Deadhouse Gates and see how I feel about it.

Homeland did this. Season three had one of the most beautiful endings, and then they made a really unimpressive season four. Season three would have been an amazing ending for a show. Supernatural did this to the max. Season 5's ending was amazing, and they have since gone another five seasons, none of which are very good. The thing with them is that they would have been significantly better if they had happened BEFORE that amazing season five finale. It's really disappointing when this happens to a show you liked.

I posted a while back, and my answers have since grown, so here: -Born an English speaker -Can read German and partially speak it -Can partially read and understand Spanish -Can perform ASL I practice ASL, German, and Spanish each at least three times a week I hope to add Italian and French to my practices in a few years, and I really feel like I should figure out how to read music, but that one is honestly at the bottom of my list since it's not important for communication between people.

yesterday I watched MASH (movie and show), and A Few Good Men. All very good, and I'm going to watch that show probably for the rest of my life. I love those characters. I also watched Mockingjay part I and rewatched the first three Mad Max movies (can't wait to see Fury Road.) I technically watched these most recent since they were right after, but I felt Mash and Few Good Men were more relevant to today. (And yes, I read some Hitchhiker's Guide for Towel Day, but not nearly as important.)

I thought it might be God Bless America at first (it's been a while.) Now I think it's that Walking Dead game.

Yes!

True Detective's first season is one of the best things I have seen on television. that and Fargo.

I don't think i'd ever enjoy being a part of a band. If i ever get into music, I'll probably do all the stuff myself. I want to learn a lot of instruments and I think that would be the best motivation for it. I too do not currently have the skill sets for such a project.

Really? Not a single guess? See, it's not as fun when I do it lol. Alright, hint: One of the characters carries the namesake of a man traversing Hell.

I'm no good at these things, but I'll try. it's about two half-black half-white guys who steal from a store and when no one is working there use the store as a sports arena.

Crime dramas have been really great lately. Hannibal, Bates Motel, True Detective, Fargo. Wait, is there something wrong with gore?

I know nothing about Spongebob. I avoided it at all costs my entire life. lol. Alright, so do you give another one, then?

That's dark. Alright, 36AD: Though the above user's assessment is regarded as the most likely date, 36AD is the last possible year Jesus Christ could have been crucified. That's really the only specific thing I can think of about 36 AD. And really, if he did indeed live, 33 AD is the most accepted date, so I guess I'm cheating.

crap, alright. Even though I'm the only one playing, we can't drag it out? lol. : P alright. is it My Little pony?

So, a new show in the vein of anthropomorphic animals getting into random situations. Courage the Cowardly Dog?

I posted a while back, but I have since watched another one, very new, called Inherent Vice. This is the perfect example of a great adaptation. Pynchon has been called, for decades, unfilmable, and yet Inherent Vice was great. I greatly hope that someone does Bleeding Edge, and I'm honestly baffled Mason & Dixon hasn't been done yet. Someone like Fincher could do that, no one's done it. Which is crazy. But I do hope that Bleeding Edge gets made someday as a movie. It would do very well, especially for today's general film audience. But yeah, Inherent Vice's movie did a good job of keeping the atmosphere intact. Another one I watched, Gone Girl, was amazing. However, I have not read Gillian Flynn's books yet. I heard her other two are coming to the screens. i hope they keep intact that same feeling Gone Girl had. I liked Gone girl, because it had that idea that the Unwritten comics has: what happens when someone's image of themselves is derived from the built-up persona the media has made for you based off of things that someone else said about you? It's absolutely great. Phenomenal movie.

Lots of awesome trips mentioned. I extensively planned a year-and-a-half walk through the country. I poured all kinds of research into it and read things from people who did similar, though shorter, trips; I have all of the supplies and even a decent chunk of the money I need. But I quite my job at a Walgreens recently, full of people I genuinely really liked, in order to write a novel that captured my mind so much, I wasn't content with the amount of time I had leftover in the day to write it. So I quit in the effort to write the novel. Whether it gets picked up or not, I'm going on my adventure though. I'll just have to find my way around the money hurdle. I have other kinds of traveling endeavors that are still in the basic planning stage. one of them is to walk from the southern-most point in South America, to the northern-most point of Canada. A trip spanning the Americas. After that I wanted to travel through Canada for a while, then back into the U.S., then bike around the U.S., find a way to live in each state at least a month. This whole thing is basically a 10-year adventure. Then I plan to travel Europe, and i wanted to sail, but not sure where. Traveling has always been a part of the plan in my life. I realized a few years ago that this was not the case with everyone. I found this odd; I've lived my entire life just accepting that that was what I was going to do: travel, and write novels, and be involved in as many entertainment mediums as possible. I told a friend of mine my realization, and he just said, "I thought you knew you were weird." I had no idea that most people don't desire to do these things. I explained to him that I've just lived my life knowing I was going to do these types of things at some point and he said, "I know, you're really weird."